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Conrad Robert Murray (born February 19, 1953) is a Grenadian-American [1] former cardiologist and convicted felon. He was the personal physician of Michael Jackson on the day of his death in 2009. In 2011, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death for having inadvertently overdosed him with a powerful surgical ...
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
John David Moor (1947 – 14 October 2000) [1] [2] was a British general practitioner who was prosecuted in 1999 for the euthanasia of a patient. He was found not guilty but admitted in a press interview to having helped up to 300 people to die. [3] He was the first doctor in Britain to be tried solely for the mercy killing of a patient. [4 ...
In the thriller novel The Murder Book (2002) by Jonathan Kellerman, a murder book is sent to psychologist Alex Delaware, renewing the hunt for a murderer in a 20-year-old case. A murder book featured heavily in the plot of the 2006/2008 ABC miniseries Day Break. Episode 387–1716 of the TV series Law & Order is titled "Murder Book" (2007). [1]
A California fertility doctor who prosecutors said strangled his wife and then tried to make it appear a s id she’d died from accidentally falling down stairs was found guilty of murder Tuesday ...
William Mullins-Johnson of Sault Ste. Marie was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his niece, Valin Johnson, after a two-and-a-half week trial in September 1994. [9] He was convicted after a jury trial in which Smith's evidence played a major role in determining the time of death, the cause of death and whether the girl had been ...
The doctor soon became a suspect in Harris’ death, after detectives found that he was supplying her with drugs taken from his medical practice, local NBC4 in Maryland previously reported.
R v Adams [1957] is an English case that established the principle of double effect applicable to doctors: that if a doctor "gave treatment to a seriously ill patient with the aim of relieving pain or distress, as a result of which that person's life was inadvertently shortened, the doctor was not guilty of murder" where a restoration to health is no longer possible.